pleurer comme une Madeleine
\plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\
The verdict
“pleurer comme une Madeleine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pleurer abondamment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleurer-comme-une-madele · pleurer comme une Madeleine · French
pleurer comme une Madeleine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 27 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleurer comme une Madeleine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleurer comme une Madeleine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleurer comme une Madeleine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pleurer abondamment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pleurer comme une Madeleine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pleurer comme une Madeleine, spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pleurer abondamment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleurer comme une Madeleine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pour te dire aussi que je pense tout le temps à toi ; mais il ne faut pas s’écouter, sans quoi je pleurerais toute la sainte journée, comme une Madeleine.
J'ai pleuré comme une Madeleine et je n'étais pas la seule, on aurait pu remplir des seaux de larmes.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.